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CityToolBox is a learning platform encouraging young people to take action in the city. It provides them with the practical ‘know-how’ to become the protagonists in transforming the city.

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CTB Lab

CTB Lab 04 Kassel

In a collaboration with Dynamo Windrad, Streetbolzer e.V., and the ruruHaus, the Fussballaballa tool was implemented in and adapted to a new setting as part of the documenta fifteen – the largest German contemporary art exhibition held every five years - in Kassel, Germany. The fourth iteration of the CTB Lab brought together different local communities through critical public viewing of the EURO 2020 which was embedded in a discursive program reflecting on a multitude of issues surrounding the sport. | ›

CTB Journal

Fussballaballa in Kassel @ documenta 15

For the first time, Fussballaballa left its Berlin-Moabit home for Kassel for this years Euro 2020. The weekend of the quarterfinals was the beginning to an alternative public viewing experience, providing critical perspectives on football and bringing together communities. | ›

CTB Journal

Hybrid Workshop: Curfew Urbanism

In a workshop blending offline field work and online prototyping, we tried to design tools for the new abnormal. | ›

CTB Journal

Dressing-Up the City Void (2014-2021)

Initiated in 2014, the project Vivacidade sought to revive forgotten corners in Aveiro, Portugal, and created a new public square: Largo de São Sebastião. We revisited the project and looked at how it has developed over the years since. | ›

CTB Journal

Naš List: Localised urban practices in the times of multiple uncertainty

Among many things, the 2020 CTB Lab in Rijeka, produced a local newspaper called Nas List that is meant to connect the neighbourhood and strengthen local identity. Here, you can read a commentary from the newspaper written by CTB’s Miodrag Kuč. | ›

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Save thirsty city trees! A map that displays more than 625.000 city trees of Berlin and helps them to survive.

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Ecological Awareness / Neighbourhood Activation

Gieß den Kiez

Berlin, DE Action Gardening Mapping

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Jugaadopolis is a social innovation initiative sited at the intersection of heritage conservation, education and sustainable development

Aims

Buidling Identity / Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Community Empowerment / Ecological Awareness / Heritage awareness / Innovation of Heritage / Intercultural exchange / Intergenerational Understanding / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Skill exchange / Social cohesion / Space Activation / Unterstanding local Identity

Jugaadopolis

Pan India, IN Alternative Pedagogy Exhibition Festival Hackathon Installation Neighbourhood Platform

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Letting children play freely with building materials in a public space invites and empowers them to participate in the creation of the urban landscape.

Aims

Buidling Identity / Inclusion of Marginalised / Instant Prototyping / Neighbourhood Activation / Space Activation

Guldängen Bygglekplats - adventure and building playground

Malmö, SE Alternative Pedagogy

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Parliamentary sessions of a local council in-the-making.

Aims

Buidling Identity / Community activation / Knowledge Production / Political Critique / Space Activation

Ćakula

Rijeka, HR Action

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A collaborative art project all around Novi Sad giving young artists a chance to improve in their field by working with their peers.

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Production / Neighbourhood Activation / Skill exchange

Art Kvart - Start!

Novi Sad, RS Workshops Alternative Pedagogy

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A 3-week educational design and build course that created a tangible social impact in the neighbourhoods around Porto.

Aims

Buidling Identity / Community Empowerment / Knowledge Exchange / Rethinking Modernist Housing / Skill exchange

Practice & Theory of Sustainable Architecture

Porto, PT Workshops

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What would happen if old furniture could be repurposed to give life to an abandoned spot in the city?

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Community Empowerment / Neighbourhood Activation

Synoikia Pittaki

Athens, GR Installation

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Dictionary of the Local Council of Hartera

Aims

Buidling Identity / Community Empowerment / Innovation of Heritage / Neighbourhood Activation / Space Activation

Kvarterski rječnik

Rijeka, HR Installation

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Let's open the private up to the public. The Open Living Room is a community project offering a free space for knowledge exchange, cultural events and organization of community activities. From neighbours. For neigbours. Without shoes.

Aims

Buidling Identity / Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Community Empowerment / Connecting Rural and Urban life / Inclusion of Marginalised / Innovation of Heritage / Instant Prototyping / Intergenerational Understanding / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Neighbourhood Solidarity / Skill exchange / Social cohesion / Unterstanding local Identity

Open Living Room

Berlin, DE Neighbourhood Platform Workshops

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Once a month on a Sunday we invite strangers to walk together in their city.

Aims

Buidling Identity / Community activation / Heritage awareness / Inclusion of Marginalised / Intergenerational Understanding / Sustainable Mobility / Unterstanding local Identity

Talk the Walk

Timisoara, RO Tours Neighbourhood Platform

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Like a library but you can borrow everything from tools, camping & sport gear to kitchen appliances and party stuff... Sharing is caring! The earth thanks you for saving her natural ressources and bringing your community together.

Aims

Buidling Identity / Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Community Empowerment / Connecting Rural and Urban life / Ecological Awareness / Inclusion of Marginalised / Instant Prototyping / Intergenerational Understanding / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Neighbourhood Solidarity / Political Critique / Rethinking Modernist Housing / Skill exchange / Social cohesion

La Manivelle - Sharing Library of Things

Geneva, CH Neighbourhood Platform

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'What do we need to make a house?' - How a portable shelter becomes a neighbourhood space for encounter

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community Empowerment / Innovation of Heritage / Intercultural exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Political Critique / Space Activation

COM ABRIGO

Lisbon, PT Action Workshops

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Monthly summer-market connects the neighbourhood and provides a platform for local goods and handcrafted items.

Aims

Community Empowerment / Neighbourhood Activation

Gütermarkt

Berlin, DE Market

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Combining open air independent cinema with food, cooked by local cooks and volunteers. Cinematic-gastronomic experience bridging diverse local communities.

Aims

Community activation / Space Activation

Speisekino / Food & Footage

Berlin, DE Screening

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Turning the popular format of ‘public viewing’ of sports into an educational and community-building event.

Aims

Community activation / Space Activation / Political Critique

Fußballaballa

Berlin, DE Screening

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Guided walking tours used for an in-depth exploration of the urban environment.

Aims

Heritage awareness

Keep on walkin'

Zagreb, HR Tours

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A creative and dynamic dialogue about the city’s challenges, between citizens and local stakeholders with designers and researchers!

Aims

Community Empowerment

imagine the city

Chalkida, GR Exhibition

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The courtyards are alive! Creating places for socio-cultural exchange and a melting pot for creative ideas

Aims

Community activation / Heritage awareness

The Living Courtyards

Maribor, SI Action

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Incorporating controversial modernist heritage into individual myths to build up a common, agonistic identity

Aims

Community activation / Heritage awareness / Neighbourhood Solidarity

Museum of Housing Estates

Lublin, PL Archive

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Running a RISO printing space as an semi-open workshop that the bigger community can be part of.

Aims

Community activation

Penthaus für schöne Formate

Berlin, DE Workshops

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Urban change by bike: Art Spin is a community-based, interactive bicycle art tour

Aims

Community activation / Neighbourhood Solidarity / Space Activation / Sustainable Mobility

Art Spin

Berlin, DE Festival

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Extrordinary tours, extraordinary stories, extraordinary citizens: a personal guide to the city

Aims

Innovation of Heritage

Stroller

Lublin, PL Tours

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Light up your city with light art interventions in neglected urban spaces

Aims

Community activation

LIGHT IT UP!

Zagreb, HR Installation

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A dinner where we share food, concerns and ideas about our neighbourhood!

Aims

Community activation / Inclusion of Marginalised / Neighbourhood Activation / Social cohesion

Dine with the locals

Athens, GR Action

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Filling urban voids through participatory construction workshops

Aims

Community Empowerment

Micro-scale urban regeneration

Aveiro, PT Action

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A playground for DIY instrument-building and music-making

Aims

Community Empowerment / Ecological Awareness / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Social cohesion

Festival For Self-Built Music

Berlin, DE Festival Installation Workshops

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Wasteland Twinning is the alternative to City Twinning: highlighting the city's users, citizens and non-citizens in its overall ecology!

Aims

Ecological Awareness / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Solidarity

Wasteland Twinning

Nottingham, GB Neighbourhood Platform

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A museum of the everyday: displaying personal objects and sharing local narratives

Aims

Innovation of Heritage / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Space Activation / Unterstanding local Identity

Chitpur Local Pop-up Museum

Chitpur, IN Neighbourhood Platform

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From bike toolbox to CityToolBox: Community Bike Kitchen empowers citizens to take agency in their everyday travel.

Aims

Community activation / Ecological Awareness / Sustainable Mobility / Community Empowerment / Neighbourhood Activation

Community Bike Kitchen

Bratislava, SK Neighbourhood Platform Workshops

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Want to discover your town and help shape a stronger community?

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community Empowerment / Intercultural exchange / Knowledge Exchange / Space Activation

Der Backgammon Platz

Ahlen, DE Games

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Hack the city through citizen collaboration!

Aims

Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation

Urban Hackathon

Maribor, SI Hackathon

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The FAROFA recipe is easy and makes occupying public spaces so much fun!

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Knowledge Exchange / Neighbourhood Activation / Skill exchange / Space Activation

FAROFA

São Paulo, BR Action

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Take a walk on the wild side: activating the city by foot!

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Intercultural exchange / Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Production / Space Activation / Unterstanding local Identity

Passeio Urbano

São Paulo, BR Tours

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Connecting through coffee; this tool brings active citizens together for a critical discussion over a cup of Joe.

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Political Critique / Space Activation / Unterstanding local Identity

'Mi.ZA' MAKES COFFEE

Maribor, SI Action

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This urban game uncovers a special treasure: the hidden knowledge of the city!

Aims

Buidling Identity / Heritage awareness / Inclusion of Marginalised / Innovation of Heritage / Unterstanding local Identity

URBAN TREASURE HUNT

Maribor, SI Games

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Become the Indiana Jones of your own neighbourhood with Playing Estate Urban Game!

Aims

Community Empowerment / Neighbourhood Activation / Rethinking Modernist Housing / Unterstanding local Identity

Playing Estate Urban Game

Lublin, PL Alternative Pedagogy Games Mapping

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An exercise in empathy: Estate Collage teaches children to view their estate through the eyes of its marginalized inhabitants

Aims

Community Empowerment / Ecological Awareness / Heritage awareness / Inclusion of Marginalised / Innovation of Heritage / Intergenerational Understanding / Rethinking Modernist Housing / Unterstanding local Identity

Estate Collage

Lublin, PL Alternative Pedagogy Workshops

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Habitabis is a festival for sharing, collaborating and creating on themes of rehousing and social housing.

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Community activation / Community Empowerment / Inclusion of Marginalised / Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Production / Neighbourhood Activation / Political Critique / Skill exchange / Social cohesion / Sustainable Mobility / Unterstanding local Identity

Habitabis Festival

Lisbon, PT Conference Festival Workshops

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Open-air cinema for social cohesion

Aims

Citizen Engagement / Inclusion of Marginalised / Intercultural exchange / Intergenerational Understanding / Neighbourhood Activation / Neighbourhood Solidarity / Space Activation

Urban Cinema

Brussels, BE Screening